Word: sawdusted
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...exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall trial in 1927 he was acquitted on appeal. He once said: "Private detectives as a class...
...pink lemonade gone modern in bottles, popcorn, peanuts (5¢ outside, 10¢ within), frankfurters and colored parasols. Over all sounded the neighing of horses, bellowing of elephants, laughing of hyenas, screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder?the immemorial smell of Circus...
...short speech of introduction. "This is the rabbit which is Leverett House," he said with biblical grandeur. It was as he picked Bunny Leverett up by his long aristocratic ears, holding it aloft so that every one could see, that the immortal nature of the rabbit was discovered; its sawdust interior was felt to be of sterner stuff than the ordinary run of toy store rabbits...
Apparatus similar to that developed in California for diving practice has been installed in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building. Consisting of straps to hold the diver in the air and a sawdust pit for landing purposes, the apparatus permits the development of good form...